come back and see us. coming up on the half hour mark, we will head to the floor on all of today's market action. >> sorry john mac starting to head in and charlie gasparino is working that story. >>> welcome back to "power lunch". here are stories we have been following 789 good news and bad news. the same store sales fell in july and plenty of companies are beating expectations and raising guidance. former aig chief frank greenberg is expected to settle allegations brought by the sec. ahead of tomorrow's very big unemployment number, new claims fell by 38,000 last week. that could be another sign the economy is recovering here. >> let's talk more about that. let's go back down to the floor of the new york stock exchange. standing by, i know i used that. good to see you. what are we seeing here? is this ahead of the jobs report? >> those numbers have been ratcheted a different way. if you look at the beginning of the week, analysts were looking at maybe 200,000, 225,000 they are give together a wider bert